I love it when kids rebel against the government schools. Reported CBS Los Angeles: “The revamped school lunches at Los Angeles Unified School District have won awards, commending them for improving the menu at the second largest school district in the nation. Too bad the students don’t agree.

“Rejecting healthful alternatives like vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles, students are throwing them in the trash by the thousands, bringing junk food from home and buying instant noodles and other decidedly unhealthy fare from the ‘black markets’ that have begun to thrive at campuses across the district, according to the Los Angeles Times.”

If the food smugglers get caught they really would have a “Twinkie Defense.”

More: “The kerfluffle led to LAUSD’s decision to change the menu in favor of healthier options. The district decided to do away with chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk.

“Now, the Times reports cartons of plain milk are being thrown away en masse, unopened, along with uneaten entrees. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by thousands of students, who are ditching lunch and are suffering from hunger-related ailments.”

One problem is that it’s much disputed what’s a “healthy” lunch for kids. The schools push the federal government’s vegetable/carb-heavy Food Pyramid.

Food Diversity?

Usually, the LAUSD is ultra-politically correct when it comes to ethnic diversity. Its Web site boasts: “The Office of Human Relations, Diversity & Equity is committed to fostering a safe and respectful District, school and community culture where the seeds of peace and justice are sown so that all students and staff can lead safe, purposeful and academically fruitful lives.”

The district has identified 92 different languages spoken in the homes of its students, a rough approximation of ethnic background. Why then does it push only one food menu? Shouldn’t it have 92 menus, with the food adjusted to what the kids chow down at home from Mom?

As usual, the government doesn’t like dissonance, even in a system that prepares 650,000 lunches a day. It can’t accept that there can be conflicting, unreconcilable explanations for something. It can’t get beyond the lobbyists, such as the powerful grain and processed food companies that push the “healthy” food on kids.

The LAUSD has responded the only way it knows how: “The complaints have been heard and LAUSD is planning changes to the menu, the Times reports. Burgers and (healthy) pizza are coming back, and dishes like quinoa salads and brown rice cutlets are out.”

Let’s hope this food rebellion turns bigger and overturns the whole rotten government schools system. The kids hate the system, so why make them stay?

Abolish the government schools. Kids who want to study then will do so with enthusiasm, in private schools. Those that don’t can work. But better than the government schools would be to unleash the kids to run wild in the streets.

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When I was a kid if I didn’t like the food mom and dad put on the table I went hungry for the evening. If I spit it out at the dinner table I was automatically grounded for the weekend.

For most of these kids the taxpayer is paying for their food at LAUSD. If they don’t like the school food discontinue it and have them brown bag it like we used to have to do. I never got a free breakfast or lunch at my schools. Neither did any of my classmates. How many of you did?

If the liberals running schools weren’t trying to so hard to replace parents, more children would bring snacks and lunch to school. Instead, parents have abdicated their responsibility, and allowed the school to feed their kids. What an embarrassment. But this generation of parents knows no shame and lacks pride.

Growing up, I was responsible for making the daily sack lunches for my family. I still bring my lunch so that I can eat what I want, and not the garbage that more people eat. It was good training.

I agree, Katy. It shouldn’t be the public school’s responsibility to feed the students and it certainly shouldn’t be the taxpayer’s responsibility to pay for it. If the kids get free breakfast and free lunch at school 5 days a week it is deducted from the family’s food stamp allotment? Figure the odds. And we have 46 million americans on food stamps.

Don’t we have the tail wagging the dog here??? The kids don’t like the healthy food so they’re going to bring back the burgers and pizza??? 😀 The problem with america is that food is so plentiful that no one ever goes hungry. Not only do they want the food free-of-charge. 9 year olds demand the right to decide what’s going to be on the menu!

I think a good famine is one of the best things that could happen to America.